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TIME TABLE.

On and after APR{ET18, 1939; until Further Notion (all previous

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OP TRAINS

to.No. 11, No. 16 A.M.A.M. A.M. V.M.P.K.

Kowloon Dep. 8.351 8,00 8,34-8,05, 10,00) 13,49 1,18,

Taumati Dep. 6.44

Shatin...Dep 8.56

Talpo....Dep 7,10

Taipe

Market. Dep. 7,158

Fanking. Dep. 7.25

Sheang

shai...Dep. 7,80

Sham.

sumdaya & Holidays only

9.15 10.08.11.13 1.33 9.23: 10,20) 12,30 1,58) 9.43 10.83 13,43 1.51|

948 10.37 33.47 1,55 - 10,0 10,47, 12.57 3,05||

9.0 10.0 20.53 1.0 9.10

chun...Arr. 7.38 8:40 9.07 10.1 10.58 1.03 2.18

Canton „Az

11.68

5,44

DOWN TRAINS

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2.37 3.90) 4,30) 3,40; 7,85. 4.38 5.48 7.43 4.50 €,00! 7.55

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| 6,03) J.13) 8.08

5.08.17 6.12 3.18 8.97 8.22

3.11 5,03 6.82 8.25

3.17.00 5.29 6,39 9.52

7.18-

STATIONS

No. 1 No. 1 Ho7

A.X. A

No. No. 18 n. 17 No.19 Na 51;No. 12 NO

P.M. P.MP3. P.SC.

L.X.

8.05

3.25

Cantou

Shamchan...Dep. Shoung hoi Dep, Fauling ...Dap, Taipo Market.Dep. Taipo

7.187.59 10.34 j11,81, 11,49. 2,314,393.47 6.42

7.07 7.14

Dop.

7.20 8.04 10.42

11.68 9.40 4.46 584

7,255.10 10.47

19.00 9.44 4.50

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7,339.21.10.67 1405.23 11.01

08.51 11.26 8.128.57 11.32 12.01

12.11 | 2,545,00 | 6.08 14.163.00 5.04 6.13 12.308.196,17) 8.28 12.493.37529 8.38 11.48 3.33 6.36 8.44 7.22 7.49

Dop,

Shatin ...Dep. | 7,539.39 · 11,14

Yaumati...Dep.

Kowloon....AIT.

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SEQUEL TO "DISLOYAL" TALK.

LIBEL ACTION AGAINST SCHOOL HEAD MISTRESS.

A libel action by a girl against her former schoolmistress arising out of the girl's expulsion from school, came before the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury in the King's Bench Division last month.

Miss Mollie Frances Hunt, of Elm Grove, Guernsey, suing by her aunt, Mrs. H. A. Hobson, as her next friend, claimed damages for alleged libel and breach of duty against Miss Kathleen M. Damon, of Upper Chine, Shanklin, Isle of Wight.

You are here on suffrance, and if of your aunt and sorry for your I had not been so extremely fond mother Iwould not have had you so long. She also spoke to Miss Hunt about slacking" at school. Miss Hunt said that she would.try to do better, and promised not to write again to Miss Widdowson,

Later, in the dormitory, Miss Hunt told some other girls about the interview. The conversation came to the ears of Miss Damon, who sent for Miss Ennt and told her, I hear you have been speaking of me in a very disgraceful manner. and ridiculing our interview. Miss Hunt denied it, but Miss Damon went on: "In view of your ex- treme disloyalty I cannot keep you here, and you are going home at 'once.'

"Miss Hunt was sent off im- Mr. Singleton, K.C. and Mr.mediately in her gymnasium clothes Beresford appeared for Miss Hunt,in charge of a mistress to Loudon, and Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C.,

where he was handed over to the and Mr. Fox Andrews for the de

care of her aunt. fence.

Miss Damon denied all Miss Hunt's allegations, pleaded that the words complained of had no de- famatory meaning and were true, and that they were published on a privileged occasion.

Mr. Singleton said that Miss Hant was nineteen and was former. is a pupil at the school at Upper Chine, Shanklin, of which Miss Damon was head, mistress. She went there when she was thirteen, in 1924, and remained there until May of last year, when she was expelled, with, he suggested,, no justification.

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On the same day Misa Damon wired to the girl's mother: Regret I must ask you to remove Mallie from here at once." She also wrote to Mrs. Carre, the mother, who had married again, complaining that the letters which Misa Hunt had written to Miss Widdowson were extremely disloyal, and that Miss Hunt had spoken to other giris in a disloyal way and had ridiculed their interview.

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alleged disloyalty, Mr. Singleton ber suggested, cast a serious slur upon

Miss Hunt, in evidence, said that Miss Widdowson told her that she thought Mist Damon "had a down on me." To the girls in the dor mitory she did not ridicule her in- terview with Miss Damon, but she told them that she thought Miss Damon was unjust and that "she. seemed to have her knife in me." She also said that Miss Damon was an old cat

Letter to Schoolfellow.

In cross-examination Miss Hunt said that she realised the import ance of discipline in school and of keeping a promise if it were reason- able. If it were not reasonable she thought that she was entitled to break it.

Mr. Birkett: Is it not clear that ne, one can ever trust you? Miss Hunt was understood to assent and to say that she did not think it mattered very much if people at the school did not trust her.

Do you feel your position in the witness-box 1-Yes.

It is unpleasant 1—Yes.

Did you write this to one of the pupils at the school a week after you left My dear old Alice What ho! I have been expelled Misa Hunt, he said, did hot get

(17!). I don't suppose I ought to write to you, as Miss Damon said on very well with Miss Damon, In 1929 & Miss Widdowson' came to

I was not to write to anyone at the school as matron. She liked.

Disgusted Girls.">

the school, so don't, for the love Miss Hunt, who appreciated this

"The other girls," wrote Mias heard from me. Sister (Miss Wid of the Lord, mention you have liking. The friendship developed Damon, were an disgusted that dowson) is at the bottom of all to some extent, and Miss. Damon they felt bound to gring the matter this. I did not deserve to be ex thought that there should not be to my notice. wish Mollie topelled Mother is going to law a friendship between a pupil and leave this school immediately about it. I have to see the lawyer, one of the staff She told Miss have forbidden any other pupils to Huat so.

During the Easter holidays, of dealings with her." Miss Damon ice looking-(laughter) and he write to her or have any further but I don't mind. He is an awfully nice man-(laughter)-and very last year Miss Hunt wrote two also wrote to Mrs. Hobaon: "There nid Miss Damon, has no right, to letters to Miss Widdowson. In the have been too many of these un- first she said: Don't write if you pleasant episodes, and I am not expel me on the grounds she has feel it would be unfair to Miss prepared to go through another Damon, but I would love a letter, term of trouble with. Mollie.” as I am feeling rather down in In a subsequent letter to Mrs. the dumps." In the second letterCarre, Miss Damen wrote:

he wrote: Mother has written learning on all sides how disloyal to Miss Damon, and I shall leave, she (Mollie) has been. It would

done.

to stand up in the witness-box against Miss Damon. Alt my family are furious with her, and

What fun if I have

am having a ripping time down here at theatres, etc. Thanks for your letter and pictures of Ronnid' Colman (Laughter.), They are this up and don't publish it abroad

at the end of next term, thank be ridiculous for you to suppose I the Lord, as I do not think I could sent her away for her last mis. stand much more of it. Idemeanour alone. It was the cul- topping. For heaven's sake tear hope you don't mind me writing again, but I do not think anything cal matter now I am leaving anyhow, nothing much worse than what has happened.

Talk in the Dormitory.

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On May 4, the day after the girl returned to the school, Miss Damon sent for her and told her that Miss Widdowson had shown her the letters, as she considered that they were too disloyal to receive. Miss Damon complained that Miss Hunt was wrong to write such letters, and declared: "I don't want you here:

Plaintiff's Admissions,

Miss Hunt agreed that she wrote the letter..

minating point of repeated dis- obedience. She bas" broken her to anyone." promise to me over and over again. The fact that she made fun of the promise she had just made and tried to unsettle a new girl by disloyal talk showed me that she had not the smallest intention of behaving herself this time. I bope she will, from this episode, learn a salutary lesson on the sacredness of keeping a promise and the elementary principles of loyalty."

The fact that the girl had been expelled from the schoni, though her dismissal was only for her.

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Mr. Birkett: Within a week of being expelled you were, glorying in the matter 1-Yes..

You thought it would be a nice thing to go into the witness-box and say things against Miss Damon, did you not 1-Yes.

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You are glad to come into the box and call her an old cat "- (Continued on Page 4)

Diary of Coming Events.

To-day. (August 8.)

Christian Fellowship Mosting, Helena May Institute, 10 am.

Queen's Theatre: "Harmony at Home."

World Theatre: and "Virgin Queen."

Shakedown"

Star Theatre: "Fighting Love" and Acrobatic and Classical Danc- ing by Rowina and Dandolo,

Tides: High .32 am and 10.56 p.m.; Low, 1.49 3. A

and 3.49 p.m.

Baturday (August 9.) Open Air Concert-Indian Recrea- tion Club, Sookunpro, 8.45 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: Harmony at Home."

Bunday. (August 16.)

Queen's Theatre; "Lone Star Ranger."

World Theatre: The Life of Tuchun" (Chinese film).

Star Theatre: "Paradise for

Two."

Central Theatre: World Theatre: Shakedown" Curves." and Virgin Queen."

Dangerous

Tides: High, 9.07 man, and li

Central Theatre: "Dangerous Star Theatre: "Fighting Love." p.m.; Low, 2.28 a.m. and 4.21 p.m. Curves."

Central Theatre :- "Dangerous Majestic Theatre: Three Sía-Curves." ? ners,"

"Majestic Theatre: Taree Sia-

Lammert's Auction of Household ners." Furniture, Salesroom, 2.30 p.m.

Annual Meeting, H.K. Football Club (Messrs. Jardine,, Matheson's Boardroom, 5.30 p.m.)

Promenade Concert at Volunteer Headquarters, 9.30 p.m.

"HK. Cricket Club, "At Home,

-Cold Leg of Lamb, Mixed Salad 3.30 p.m.

7-Best Futatoes

9.---Cabbage 10.-Compote of Pineapple

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